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Book SynopsisTat* is a bit of a graphic designer's curse. Walk into any design studio and you will see tat pinned to the walls or placed with loving care on top of a computer screen. Even the purist will have a secret cache hidden away somewhere. Andy Altmann began collecting tat while he was on his Foundation course, getting ready for an interview at St Martins School of Art. He'd been asked to present a sketchbook, but worried that he couldn't draw very well, he decided to start a scrapbook: "I rummaged through the drawers at home and found some football cards from the late 1960s and early '70s (plenty of Georgie Best), an instruction leaflet from an old Hoover, Christmas cracker jokes, and so on. Then I started on the magazines, cutting out images of anything that interested me. And finally I took myself off to the college library, where I photocopied things from books before reaching for the scissors and glue." It was the beginning of a significant collecting habit. So what it is that makes a piece of graphic tat interesting? Is it the 'retro' thing - a fascination with a bygone age, the primitive printing techniques, the naivety of the design, or the use of colour? All of the above, of course, but it's not quite that simple. "Occasionally people offer me something they've found that they think I might like", says Andy. "But usually they're wrong - it doesn't excite me at all. The magic is missing." To a graphic designer, most the content of this book can safely be regarded as 'bad' design. But there is some magic in each and every piece that has made Andy either pick it up off the street, trail through online links, or enter some dodgy looking shop on the other side of the world just to snap it up. Here you'll find everything from sweet wrappers to flash cards, from soap powder boxes to speedway flyers, from wrestling programmes to bus tickets. More tat than you can shake a stick at. Taken together, it represents a lifetime of gleeful hunting and gathering. * tat (noun) - anything that looks cheap, is of low quality, or in bad condition; junk, rubbish, debris, detritus, crap, shiteTrade Review"As any graphic designer will know, creative inspiration is everywhere. From storefronts, books and interiors to packaging, fashion...even 'tat'...It's this 'tat' that designer Andy Altmann is now celebrating in his new book." -- Katy Cowan, Creativeboom;

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Book SynopsisSlote shows you how to identify the core collections versus the weedable items. After reviewing current weeding practices and standards, he discusses a variety of traditional and computer-assisted methods for weeding.Based on the author's ongoing research, field observations, and interviews with library professionals, this edition thoroughly updates the previous one and simplifies the process of weeding. Slote shows librarians how to identify the core collections versus the weedable items. After reviewing current weeding practices and standards, he discusses a variety of traditional and computer-assisted methods for weeding. His approach is based on the new understanding of the relationship between in-library use and circulation use. A section dealing with reference (noncirculating) collections has been added, and the chapter on computer-assisted weeding has been completely rewritten to help librarians streamline the weeding process. All forms have been redesigned.

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Book Synopsis‘Hendrik Fagel the Younger (1765–1838), Greffier or Chief Minister of Holland, had the misfortune to have his property seized by invading French forces in the winter of 1794–5, but managed to secure the release of his family art collection and library, which were shipped to him in London in 1798. Being in straitened circumstances he decided to sell them and negotiations took place for the purchase of the library for Trinity College.’ So begins Charles Benson’s introduction to Frozen in Time, a collection of the papers presented at the recent Fagel Symposium, held at Trinity College, Dublin, with the explicit purpose of making this astonishing resource better known outside College walls. During their two centuries of public service to the States-General and Holland, the Fagel family built up one of the most important private libraries in early modern Europe, with holdings in history, politics and law as well as every other area of human endeavour: belles lettres, philosophy and theology, geography and travel, natural history and the visual arts. This lavishly illustrated volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the symposium as well as new articles, covering subjects as diverse as early Dutch book collections and plans of the cosmos, botanical sales catalogues, pamphlets on the bloody 1641 Rebellion in Ireland, Italian Renaissance poetry and the vicissitudes of the Huguenots. As the first comprehensive study of this hugely important and hitherto relatively unknown collection – one of the most important private libraries in early modern Europe – the volume will be of immense value to scholars and general readers.

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Book SynopsisEvery major socio-political change starts with some discarding. Suffice it to think about the heaps of rubbish consisting of old furniture, cars, busts of famous communist leaders, badges, and books on the streets of Eastern Europe in the fall/winter of 1989/1990. Among the institutions which have the greatest amount of experience with discarding are libraries: Counterintuitive as it may seem, libraries (but also museums and archives) regularly discard books as part of their job. In the wake of the collapse of communism in Europe, stock revision was needed in libraries, but did it unfold in a business as usual fashion or was it a bibliocide (as it was labelled by some media in Croatia) or even the biggest destruction of books in the post-war period (as it was characterized by a German journalist)? When does a standard library practice start attracting public attention? What happened in Croatia that there is even a Wikipedia page about bookicide in the 1990s? This book approaches the issue on at least three levels (phenomenological, discursive, and theoretical) and from three angles (from the point of view of librarians, non-professionals, and, metaphorically, discarded books themselves). The aim is to offer an innovative and original interpretation of post-socialist transition and post-Yugoslav memory while at the same time providing an empirically founded case study of the inconsistencies and lack of implementation of regulations in the field of librarianship in Croatia as opposed to a seemingly more synchronized environment in Slovenia.Trade Review"Dora Komnenović's book is a convincing academic work, theoretically competent and empirically valid, about one of the most shameful episodes of post-socialist transition, bookicide. It is decisively interdisciplinary in terms of epistemology, theoretical background, and methodological tools and as such presents a comprehensive contribution to fields of transitology, cultural studies of post-socialism, (post-)Yugoslav studies, and ideology criticism. Conceived and accomplished on the productive crossroad of different social sciences and humanities, and combining top-down and bottom-up ways of researching, her book is able to uncover less-known dimensions of the topic and expand existent knowledge about it." Prof. Dr. Mitja Velikonja, University of Ljubljana

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Book SynopsisGuide to the holdings of the Vatican Archives, organised into related agency groups. Includes approximately 500 entries that describe the purpose and workings of each administrative agency of the Vatican, followed by a listing of the official records it produced. It is these administrative record that now constitute the archives.Trade ReviewIt represents by far the most detailed account that one can find in one place of the post-medieval holdings in the archives ... and it undoubtedly a useful work of reference. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *The Vatican Archives represent a resource of incomparable richness for the history of the papacy, of the countries with which the papacy has been in contact, and of the Roman Catholic Church generally. The appearance of a substantial new guide aiming to give a comprehensive account of the Vatican Archives as well as of papal archives housed outside the Vatican City is therefore a major event. * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1: College of Cardinals; Part 2: Papal Court; Capella pontificia; Famiglia della santita di Nostra Signore; Part 3: Roman Curia; Congregations; Offices; Tribunals; Part 4: Apostolic Nunciatures, Internunciatures, and Delegations; Part 5: Papal States; General Administration; Territoy under French Occupation, 18091814; Local Administration; Part 6: Permanent Commissions; Part 7: Miscellaneous Official Materials and Separate Collections; Miscellaneous Official Materials; Archivum arcis; Miscellaneous armaria of the ASV; Original amaria of the ASV; Miscelleneous series; Separate Collections; Individual and Family Papers; Records of Archconfaternities and Confraternities; Miscellaneous Papers regarding Religious Orders; Monasteries, Convents, Abbeys, and Churches; Miscelleneous Manuscripts; Spogli Cardinali; Appendix 1: List of Indexes in the Archives, Appendix 2: Current Agencies of the Modern Holy See (Vatican City-State), Bibliography, Indexes: Alphabetical List of Agencies, Series Titles, Chronological Index, Geographical Index

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Book SynopsisThis insightful book explores the challenging issues related to effective access to government information.Amidst all the chaos of today’s dynamic information transition period, the only constants related to government information are change and inconsistency, yet with Government Information Collections in the Networked Environment: New Issues and Models, you will defeat the challenging issues and take advantage of the opportunities that networked government information collections have to offer. This valuable book gives you a fresh opportunity to rethink collecting activities and to tailor collections more precisely to fulfill the information needs of your local community. It will help you provide your patrons access to the full array and value of networked government information.Government Information Collections in the Networked Environment explores the changes and inconsistency of the new networked government information environment's transitional phase, with studieTable of ContentsContents Preface Assuring User Success in a Networked Environment for Government Information The Community Information Organization: An Initiative for Communities and Academic Libraries Government Information Today: The Dilemma of Digital Collections New Tools for Collection Development: The Internet Scout Project Building Digital Collections of Government Information: The Mann Library/USDA Partnership Enhancing Access to Government Information: Redistribution of Data via the World Wide Web Distributed Collection Development on the Colorado Statewide Network Inter-Institutional Cooperation: The University of California/Stanford Electronic Government Information Initiative Group Barriers to Broad Public Access of Court Opinions and Creative Consortial Projects of Law Librarians to Democratize Access Through the Internet Index

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Book SynopsisUpgrade your library?s acquisitions methods using The Internet and Acquisitions: Sources and Resources for Development. The methods and suggestions in this bookwill help you learn to place orders for books and findinformation on needed topics of collection development on the Internet with ease. From this book, you will learn how to increase the efficiency of your replacement copy searches by reducing your dependency on used book dealers. Theinformation contained in The Internet and Acquisitions will help you to enhance and enlarge your library?s repertoire of access points to better serve your patrons. The dynamic world of library services cannot be best served through the static processes of acquiring materials in known fields. For example, web sites related to electronic journals can be manipulated through searching, linking, and other features inherent to computer databases. With The Internet and Acquisitions you will use these skills to provide patrons with access to the Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction Reader?s Advisory Web Sites An Overview of Readers? Advisory Service with Evaluations of Related Web Sites Book Publisher Sites on the Internet?s World Wide Web The Association of American University Presses: The AAUP?s Internet Presence Electronic Journals on the Internet Acquisitions, the Internet, and the Academic Library Information About Authors on the Internet: Sixteen Great Web Sites The Internet and Classical Civilization Acquisition of Young Adult Materials and the Internet: A Review of Eight Sites Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisUnderstand better how the role of ER librarian has changed through the years The advent of online information has not only changed tremendously the way that resources are stored and accessed, but has caused the evolution of the library and information science profession itself. Electronic Resources Librarianship and Management of Digital Information: Emerging Professional Roles takes a comprehensive look at the position of electronic resources (ER) librarians, the other people who work with e-content, what training and skills are needed, the managing of e-resources, and what the proliferation of online information means for the future of libraries. Respected experts provide a timely broad-based analysis of the impact of the digital age on the profession, libraries, and the people in libraries who manage the information. Electronic Resources Librarianship and Management of Digital Information: Emerging Professional Roles is a concise and informative signpost on the wTable of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Mark Jacobs) I. THE POSITION: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, AND HOW? Preferred Political, Social, and Technological Characteristics of Electronic Resources (ER) Librarians (Kathy A. Downes and Pal V. Rao) Marian Through the Looking Glass: The Unique Evolution of the Electronic Resources (ER) Librarian Position (Rebecca S. Albitz and Wendy Allen Shelburne) Expanding the Role of the Electronic Resources (ER) Librarian in the Hybrid Library (Lai-Ying Hsiung) Education and Electronic Resources (ER) Librarianship: How Library School Programs are Meeting the Needs of the ER Librarian Position (Michael L. Bradford, Mark Dehmlow, Anastasia Guimaraes, M. Ladd, Pat Loghry, and Marcy Simons) The Electronic Resources (ER) Librarian as Teacher: Bibliographic Instruction and Information Literacy (Cheryl Goldenstein) The Electronic Resources (ER) Librarian and Patrons with Disabilities (Cheryl Riley) The Electronic Resources (ER) Librarian and Special/Corporate Libraries (Stephen C. Boss and Glenn Cook) II. THE DIGITAL RESOURCE AND ITS MANAGEMENT Electronic Resources (ER) Management in the Academic Library: Process vs. Function (Stephen C. Boss and Lawrence O. Schmidt) The Nature of the Digital Resource: How the Process for the Management of Digital Resources Differs From (and Is the Same As) That of Other Formats (Jian Wang and Althea Pribyl) Standards for Management of Electronic Resources (ER) (Paoshan W. Yue) Acts of Vision: The Practice of Licensing (Rachel Miller) Skills for Effective Participation in Consortia: Preparing for Collaborating and Collaboration (Susanne Clement) Challenges of Sharing Online Information Through Traditional and Non-Traditional ILL (Cyril Oberlander) Improving Access to Electronic Resources (ER) Through Usability Testing (Laura S. Wrubel) III. FUTURE PARADOX: PARADIGM SHIFTS AND BUSINESS AS USUAL Can This Orthodoxy Be Saved? Enhancing the Usefulness of Collection Plans in the Digital Environment (Carolynne Myall and Sue Anderson) Description of and Access to Electronic Resources (ER): Transitioning Into the Digital Age (Elaine McCracken) Electronic Resources (ER) Librarians, Usage Data, and a Changing World (Alea Henle) The Human Element in Digital Preservation (Jacob Nadal) Electronic Government Information Dissemination: Changes for Programs, Users, Libraries, and Government Documents Librarians (Robert A. Staley) Challenges and Opportunities for Electronic Resources (ER) Librarians in Facing Down the Digital Divide (Tawnya K. Plumb) Open Access and Libraries (Charles W. Bailey) Index Reference Notes Included

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis guide to picture books for preschool children to second graders remains the most comprehensive and versatile such information tool for librarians, teachers, and parents. . . . the single best reference resource for quick and comprehensive access to children's picture books by subject. It continues to support the varied programming, curricular, and entertainment needs of librarians, teachers, homeschoolers, and parents and should have a place in every public library. * ARBA *

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Book SynopsisPresented in this oversize publication are 146 aerospace-related toys from the collection of Rolf Fehlbaum, Vitra’s chairman emeritus and the founder of Vitra Design Museum. Toys related to space exploration—rockets, robots and astronaut figurines—exploded in popularity in the 1930s with the success of space opera comic strips such as Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon, which portrayed postwar fantasies of untold technological possibilities. From there, sci-fi only gained a wider audience as the Soviet/American space race began and people of all ages turned their gazes skywards to wonder about what marvels may exist beyond Earth’s orbit. The toys in this volume are shown at their original size with the available packaging, organised into ten categories and arranged in chronological order by their manufacture dates. Some of the toys depict amusing conjectures for the future of aeronautical exploration such as space dogs, space elephants and even a space whale, while others are more realistic replicas of rockets in miniature. Infused with an undeniable nostalgia, this collection maintains the childlike wonder of the toys’ initial audiences and invites present-day readers to both reflect on the era’s technological advancements and look to the future for what discoveries may still be on the horizon.

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Book SynopsisIn 1967 the University of Toronto School of Library Science held a two-day colloquium on the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, the first public discussion of the new cataloguing code. This volume contains the proceedings and discussions of that meeting. It is a useful work for librarians at all levels, giving the background to the new cataloguing rules, the intentions of the Library of Congress about implementation, and some detailed suggestions for their use by the various categories of libraries. 

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Book SynopsisPresents detailed accounts of the lives and work of the 876 men, women, and institutions that earned the Nobel Prize from its inception in 1901. Arranged alphabetically, each informative 1,200 to 2,500-word essay provides abundant information on the Laureate's life and achievements, with special emphasis on the body of work for which the prize was awarded.

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Book SynopsisGaming programs offer many benefits: they encourage interaction among patrons, strengthen community bonds with the library, and when done right they can be incredibly popular. This book presents more than 50 creative programming ideas from public, school, and academic libraries.

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Book SynopsisCovering the latest in monsters and the macabre, horror expert Spratford's guide is ideal as both an introductory guide for novices and a fount of new ideas for horror-aware reference staff.

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Book SynopsisThe foremost authority today on Soviet and post-Soviet archives in Eastern Europe considers the essential problems of Ukrainian archeography.Trade ReviewPatricia Grimstead’s Trophies of War and Empire is a tour de force of scholarship… Her narrative is full of revelations about the unsolved mysteries of wartime looting and her exhaustive documentation, footnotes, and bibliography are an essential resource for all those with an interest in provenance research and restitution. -- Lynn H. Nicholas, author of The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

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Book SynopsisTechnical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively.Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.

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Book SynopsisTechnical standards are a vital source of information for providing guidelines during the design, manufacture, testing, and use of whole products, materials, and components. To prepare students—especially engineering students—for the workforce, universities are increasing the use of standards within the curriculum. Employers believe it is important for recent university graduates to be familiar with standards. Despite the critical role standards play within academia and the workforce, little information is available on the development of standards information literacy, which includes the ability to understand the standardization process; identify types of standards; and locate, evaluate, and use standards effectively.Libraries and librarians are a critical part of standards education, and much of the discussion has been focused on the curation of standards within libraries. However, librarians also have substantial experience in developing and teaching standards information literacy curriculum. With the need for universities to develop a workforce that is well-educated on the use of standards, librarians and course instructors can apply their experiences in information literacy toward teaching students the knowledge and skills regarding standards that they will need to be successful in their field. This title provides background information for librarians on technical standards as well as collection development best practices. It also creates a model for librarians and course instructors to use when building a standards information literacy curriculum.

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Book SynopsisUnpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public libraries. Contributors explore libraries at particular moments in their history across a wide range of cases, and includes Alberto Manguel’s account of the Library of Alexandria as well as chapters on library collecting in the middle ages, the libraries of prime ministers and foreign embassies, protest libraries and the slow transformation of university libraries, and the stories of the personal libraries of Virginia Woolf, Robert Duncan, Sheila Watson, Al Purdy and others. The book shows how the history of the library is really a history of collection, consolidation, migration, dispersal, and integration, where each story negotiates private and public spaces.Unpacking the Personal Library builds on and interrogates theories and approaches from library and archive studies, the history of the book, reading, authorship and publishing. Collectively, the chapters articulate a critical poetics of the personal library within its extended social, aesthetic and cultural contexts.Trade ReviewUnpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is a seminal, informative, and fascinating work of collective scholarship that will be of immense relevance and interest to authors, publishers, and bibliophiles with respect to the history, diversity, and continuing relevance of libraries. – Midwest Book ReviewTable of Contents Introduction - Private, Public and Personal Libraries In Situ and In Circulation – Jason Camlot Part I: Private Libraries Made Public 1. In Memory of Alexandria – Alberto Manguel 2. William Osler and the Collecting of the Middle Ages – Anna Dysert 3. A Gift to the Nation Worth While”: The Library of William Lyon Mackenzie King – Meaghan Scanlon 4. Personal Libraries of the State – Bart Vautour 5. Remaindering the Difference: Book Collections of Radical Protest Libraries – Sherrin Frances 6. Serious House: On the Future of Library Print Collections – Andrew Stauffer Part II: The Personal Library as a Field of Interpretation 7. The Promise of Paradise: Reading, Researching, and Using the Private Library: Virginia Woolf’s Poetry Library – Emily Kopley 8. Unpacking Duncan’s Books: Remarks on the Personal Library of Robert Duncan – James Maynard 9. “Her Books Filed for Divorce”: Embeddedness and the Question of Belonging in Relation to Sheila and Wilfred Watson’s Personal Library – Linda Morra 10. Al Purdy’s Lives and Libraries: A Bibliographical Essay – Nicholas Bradley 11. jwcurry’s Room 3o2 Books: The Small Press Bookstore as Library and Archive – Cameron Anstee Conclusion—Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten CONTRIBUTORS Jason Camlot (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada Jeffrey Aaron Weingarten (Fanshawe College) – Toronto, ON, Canada Alberto Manguel (former Director of the National Library of Argentina) – Bueonos Aires, Argentina, and Ottawa, ON, Canada Anna Dysert (McGIll University) – Montreal, QC, Canada Meaghan Scanlon (Library and Archives Canada) – Ottawa, ON, Canada Bart Vautour (Dalhousie University) – Halifax, NS, Canada Sherrin Frances (Saginaw Valley State University) – University Center, MI, USA Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) – Charolottesville, VA, USA Emily Kopley (Concordia University) – Montreal, QC, Canada James Maynard (SUNY, Buffalo) – Buffalo, NY, USA Linda Morra (Bishop’s University) – Montreal, QC, Canada Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria) – Victorian, BC, Canada Cameron Anstee (Independent Scholar) – Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Book SynopsisThis book, first published in 1992, outlines the issues, indicates major trends, and sets challenges for libraries and publishers concerning new technologies and serials. Libraries in Australia and New Zealand have struggled for years with the problems of distance and cost in a print-oriented publishing industry dominated by countries half way across the globe. This book provides practical advice on the need for Australasian libraries to become actively involved in the possibilities of this new technology in order to maximize the benefits for themselves and their clients. Throughout the book, the contributors emphasize the need for improved communication between authors, publishers, information technology specialists, libraries, and users, and propose a standardization of formats and delivery systems to aid easy cooperation between such diverse groups. The chapters stress the need for user-friendly access to information along with education programs that are tailor-made to meet different access requirements. Table of Contents1. The Electronic Journal: Is the Future With Us? Jolanda L. von Hagen 2. The Economics of Scholarly Information: A Dissolving Triangle? Tom Cochrane 3. When the Electronic Journal Comes to the Campus Carol Newton-Smith 4. Access to Journal Information and the Impact of New Technologies Anne H. Newell 5. The E-Journal: Experiences at the State Library of New South Wales Janine Schmidt 6. The View From the Other Side of the Disc Julie Stevens 7. Cyberspace Economics Don Lamberton 8. The Electronic Journal: The Day in Retrospect Brian Cook

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